Wird 2013 endlich das Jahr des Durchbruchs von Linux am Desktop?

Ich habe jahrelang diverse Linux Distributionen sowohl privat als auch beruflich als Desktopbetriebssystem eingesetzt. Obwohl es immer wieder große Fortschritte von Linux am Desktop gab, hat es trotzdem nie den großen Durchbruch gegeben. Immer wenn eine Desktopumgebung auf dem Sprung war auch für nicht IT Geeks verwendbar zu werden, kam wieder der nächste große Umbau der die Umgebung wieder nur für Geeks verwendbar machte. Mittlerweile bin ich nach 10 Jahren Linux am Desktop zu Windows 7 gewechselt und derzeit sehr zufrieden damit, aber natürlich beobachte ich die Entwicklung von Linux weiter.

Jetzt gibt es zwei Entwicklungen die wieder etwas Hoffnung auf den Durchbruch von Linux am Desktop machen. Auf der einen Seite ist mit Steam für Linux endlich eine Plattform verfügbar mit der auch PC Spieler etwas mit Linux anfangen können und zweitens gibt es im Rahmen der NSA Hysterie auch wieder positive Berichterstattung über Linux am Desktop in Medien ausserhalb der Computerwelt wie z.B. im Magazin Konkret im ORF.

IBM stellt Power 8 Prozessoren vor.

Wow IBM legt mal wieder ordentlich vor und verspricht nicht weniger als dass die neuen POWER 8 die Leistung gegenüber den bisherigen POWER 7 verdoppeln sollen.

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Was will uns dieses Hinweisschild in Zürich sagen?

Ich dachte bis jetzt immer die Schweizer sind eher konservativ. War wohl ein Irrtum.

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Transfer object owner to a new profile during deletion of a user

On IBM i every object has an owner. Normally the owner of an object is the creator of the object. When you want to delete an user with DLTUSRPRF which is still the owner of objects you will get a CPF2215 error that the deletion of the user is not allowed. You can view all objects an user owns with  "WRKOBJOWN USERPRF(username)". One possible solution for the CPF2215 is to change the owner of all objects in the WRKOBJOWN overview to another user.

But there is a much easier way to solve this problem. Add the parameter "OWNOBJOPT(*CHGOWN newowner)" to the DLTUSRPRF command and all owned objects will be transfered to the newowner automatically.

An example - the admin want to delete "usera" and want to transfer all objects to "userb":

DLTUSRPRF USRPRF(usera) OWNOBJOPT(*CHGOWN userb)

Tips for new Nokia Lumia users

I was a long time user of Nokia symbian smartphones, but after Nokia gave up Symbian i have switched to android. But now since the arrival of windows phone 8 devices Nokia has very attractive new smartphones in there portfolio again. If you are new to the Lumia world as i am, then for sure you will find the Top tips for new Lumia owners part 1 and  Top tips part 2 on Nokia Conversations very interesting.

Some interesting readings for RPG Developer

In V6R1 and V7R1 RPG has gotten some long awaited improvements in the handling of sub procedures. Be sure to read the following posts in IBMSystem Magazine to fully understand the new possibilities.

Modules, Subprocedures and Files

Major Changes in RPG File Handling

Data Storage Options in Subprocedures

Dumping Subroutines: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Or Is It?

Show pictures in emails from iPhones as attachments and not as inline images

It is very annoying, that the iPhone send pictures in email not as attachments but as inline images. This is especially a problem when you use a client to view such a mail, because it is a little bit difficult to save inline images to your file system.

Fortunately the notes client have the setting "Show in-line MIME images as attachments" which you can find in the Preferences Dialog in the "Basic Notes Client Configuration".



When you set the above described option all pictures in e-mails from iPhone user, will be shown as attachments, which you can open in your favorite photo editor, or save to the file system. This setting will not only change the behavior for new mails, but also for old ones. So you can always uncheck the "Show inline MIME images as attachments" option and will get the old behavior back. But i am pretty sure, you will not want it back if you have tried out this setting. An example for the email with the option set:

The option in the ui sets the variable "ShowMIMEImagesAsAttachments=1" in your Notes.ini. So when you want do deploy this useful option to all your notes users, you can set the "ShowMIMEImagesAsAttachments=1" variable in the notes.ini section of your Desktop policy.

IBM Notes/Domino 8.5.3 FP5 is available on Fix Central

Fixpack 5 for IBM Notes/Domino 8.5.3 is available on Fix Central.

This update contains a new Version (1.6 SR14) of the java virtual machine which fixes several known security vulnerabilities. So it is strongly recommended to install this fix pack on your Client and Server.

As always you can find all fixed SPR's in the fixlist database on Developer works.